Fred, FB> What I would suggest, if we do this, is writing the person's name *twice*: FB> once in their native character set, and once in a form that an FB> english-reader can read. The latter is an established interchange architecture I believe that was the intention in the proposal. List names in the same way we always have, AND list them in their "native" form. Whether it would helpful to provide a third form -- the ascii encoding of the native form, as it would be seen in an email address header -- is a separate question. /d -- Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>